شکر

See also: سکر‎, سكر‎, سكز‎, شكر‎, and ش ك ر‎

Baluchi

Noun

شَکَر • (šakar)

sugar

Mazanderani

Noun

شکر (šaker)

sugar

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥‎ (škʿ /šakar/), from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪‎ (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar, originally meaning grit, gravel”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian): /ʃak(k)aɾ/
(Dari): /ʃak(k)aɾ/
(Iranian Persian): /ʃak(k)æɾ~ʃekæɾ/
- (Tehrani): /ʃekæɾ/
(Tajik): /ʃakaɾ/

Noun

Dari	بوره‎
Iranian Persian	شکر
Tajik	шакар (šakar)

شکر • (šekar)

sugar
(figurative) sweet, beautiful speech
- 1915, Muhammad Iqbal, اسرار خودی [The Secrets of the Self]:
  ‏گرچه هندی در عذوبت شکر است، طرز گفتار دری شیرین‌تر است.‎‎
  garče hendi dar 'ozubat šekar ast, tarz-e goftâr-e dari širin-tar ast.
  Though the Indian [language, i.e. Urdu] is sugar in its sweetness, the way of Dari [i.e. Persian] speech is sweeter yet.

Derived terms

شکرشکن‎ (šekar-šakan, “mellifluous”, literally “sugar-breaking”)
شکری‎ (šekari)

Descendants

(See also the entries at Middle Persian škl and Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar) for descendants from Middle Persian)

→ Baluchi: شکر‎ (šakkal)
→ Bashkir: шәкәр (şäkär)
→ Chechen: шекар (šekar)
→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: शक्कर (śakkar)
- Urdu: شکر‎ (śakkar)
→ Karachay-Balkar: шекер (şeker)
→ Kazakh: шекер (şeker)
→ Kumyk: шекер (şeker)
→ Kyrgyz: шекер (şeker)
→ Proto-Mongolic: *šiker
- Buryat: шэхэр (šexer)
- East Yugur: shigir
- Middle Mongol:
  - Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠬᠢᠷ (siqir), ᠰᠢᠬᠡᠷ (siker), ᠴᠢᠬᠢᠷ (čiqir)
    - Khalkha: чихэр (čixer)
      - → Southern Altai: чикир (čikir)
      - → Tuvan: чигир (çigir)
    - Jerim: /ʃixər/
    - Juu Uda:
      - Baarin: /ʃixər/
      - Aru Khorchin: /t͡ʃʰixər/
    - Ulan Tsab: /t͡ʃixər/, /t͡ʃʰixər/
    - Shilingol: /t͡ʃixər/
    - Ordos: /ʃikxər/
  - → Arabic: شيكر‎ (šiker, šikir)
  - → Chinese: 扯克兒／扯克儿 (čeker) (Beilu Yiyu)
  - → Uyghur: شېكەر‎ (shëker)
- Written Oirat:
  - Kalmyk: шикр (şikr)
    - → Kalmyk: шикр-балта (şikr-balta)
    - → Southern Altai: шикир (šikir)
→ Ossetian: сӕкӕр (sækær)
→ Ottoman Turkish: شكر‎ (şeker)
- Turkish: şeker
  - → Adyghe: шэкэр (šeker)
- → Albanian: sheqer
- → Armenian: շեքեր (šekʿer)
- → Azerbaijani: şəkər
- → Bulgarian: шеке́р (šekér)
- → Central Kurdish: شەکر‎ (şekir)
- → Crimean Tatar: şeker
- → Gagauz: şeker
- → Ladino: sheker
- → Laz: შექერი (şekeri), შეჩერი (şeçeri)
- → Macedonian: шеќер (šeḱer)
- → Northern Kurdish: şekir
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: шећер
  Latin script: šećer
- → Zazaki: şeker
→ Pashto: شکره‎ (šakᶕra)
→ Punjabi: ਸ਼ੱਕਰ (śakkar)
→ Shor: сакер (saker)
→ Tatar: шикәр (şikär)
→ Turkmen: şeker
→ Uzbek: shakar
→ Western Panjabi: شکر‎

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic شُكْر‎ (šukr).

Noun

شکر • (šokr)

(especially religion) gratitude, thankfulness
‏‎ ― šokr kardan ― to thank God

‏‎‎ ― xodâ râ šokr! ― Thank God!

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (šekar, “sugar”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃəkː(ə)ɾ/

Noun

شکر • (śakkar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ੱਕਰ)

sugar

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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